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Session Type: Symposium
This symposium applies critical frameworks to the discourse of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). We variously analyze STEM from angles of how the STEM assemblage impacts and performs as power, spectacle as well as a site of resistance, variously in federal policy in both Canada and the U.S. and in engineering, mathematics, and science curriculums/practices. We explore how the integration of these four fields and the simultaneous exclusion of others (the social sciences) transforms knowledge practices as a neoliberal project. While most of the analysis points to STEM as a problematic assemblage, speakers also explore how marginal communities have taken up STEM in ways that are counter hegemonic and what more just, democratic, and even insurgent possibilities might be.
Mathematical Complicity in the Continuation of Colonization - Gale L. Russell, University of Saskatchewan; Jesse Bazzul, University of Regina
The Art and Design of Counterhegemonic Technology Integration - Jarek Sierschynski, University of Washington; Dominic Jay Leon Guerrero Crisostomo, University of Washington Tacoma; Amanda Bruner, University of Washington
Competing Robots: Cultures of Competition in Pre-K–12 U.S. STEM Education - Michael L Lachney, Michigan State University
Racist, Classist, Colonizing Neoliberal Fuckery Within STEM Eduspeak: Counterstories From the Front Lines - Jean Rockford Aguilar-Valdez, Portland State University
Socially Conscious Youth Using STEM (SYSTEM): Toward "Vision III" Science Literacy - John Lawrence Bencze, OISE/University of Toronto; David Del Gobbo; Sarah Halwany, University of Toronto; Mirjan Krstovic, Peel District School Board; Minja Milanovic, University of Toronto; Kirby Mitchell, University of Toronto; Majd Zouda, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto
STEM Policy in the Trump Era: Spectacle and Beyond - Matthew Weinstein, University of Washington - Tacoma